Biodiversity trends in Europe: development and testing of a species trend indicator for evaluating progress towards the 2010 target.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a trial of a species population trend indicator for evaluating progress towards the 2010 biodiversity target in Europe, using existing data. The indicator integrates trends on different species (groups), and can be aggregated across habitats and countries. Thus, the indicator can deliver both headline messages for high-level decision-making and detailed information for in-depth analysis, using data from different sources, collected with different methods. International non-governmental organizations mobilized data on over 2800 historical trends in national populations of birds, butterflies and mammals, for a total of 273 species. These were combined by habitat and biogeographical region to generate a pilot pan-European scale indicator. The trial indicator suggests a dec

SUBMITTER: de Heer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1569456 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature